Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-12-24

when this apartment is we'll lighted up
and view with admiration and delight this
wonderful freak of Nature.
Leaving this place with everlasting i'm
pressions We pass to 4 smaller room con-
tanning the Ladies Pin Cushion" From
this we take our exit and arrive at sad
chamber Of reflection. Above is a large
bowlder with no visible means of sup
port" Really our first impulse is to start
away that We may not be crushed. But
foolish thought This has been so sus-
pended for ages. and will probably so re-
main for many more. This queer bowlder,
on account of its size and manner of sus-
pension, is named g Mahomets Collin" In
the middle of the same chamber is a statue
of Lots Wife"
Hurrving along we come to the "Thea-
ter Room" where is a perfectly formed stage,
balcony, etc This room is seventy-tive by
sixty, and forty feet high. For ornaments
it has on enc side weeping willow, " Cleo
patra's Needle" monument dedicated to
| Hancock. and the "Fillow Of Beauty"
covered with delicate fern-like calcIte crys-
tai, and a frosting that sparkles like thou
sands of diamonds. Passing from this
chamber we come to a smaller but highly
decorated room containing the " Angels
Grotto" where the winged tribe held their
consultations, and more perfect wing
could not be made than the one here sJIs-
pended and formed by water and impreg-
mated with carbonate of lime.
Proceeding through another long hall
we arrive at a very richly decorated room.
Upon projection or stage in this room you
sit down, and on looking below see Solo
mons Temple" the cathedral and other
towering columns casting back their black
and ghostly shadows, and turning your
eyes upward there Is seen the " Vegetable
Garden containing perfectly formed tur-
nips, beets, radishes, etc. Onward i:
the word, and we soon reach Lake Como,
a tiny lakelet Of genuine pure cold water
and on its shores stands the "Grand Or
gan" a very large cluster of stalactites
Each column has a rich, deep musical re
sonance of varying pitch, whose tones are
more like the breathing of an organ thar
the metallic qualities of piano or kyle,
phone. Also in these pleasant quarter,
are images representing apparently Claude
and Pauline seated side by side with theil
musical instruments.
Reluctantly we leave Lake Como" anC
passing through long aisle we are ush
cred into the Large Room" This larg,
apartment has no ornamentation. 1t is the
largest room yet discovered and most re
mote, 800 feet in length, 200 feet wide ant
$50 feet high. A large pile of bowlder
has fallen from the center by some terrible
convulsion, and it has the appearance o
being recent, so much so, that my com
panion said, Il dent want much of this
The way out of this to the Crystal Pal
ace" is on call fours," and this department
though last is not least in attraction. Herr
gray stony rocks blossom forth into exqui
site flowers of OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES, fawn
colored and white frosted over with forma
tions that glisten like diamonds. Natura
chandeliers are formed, and variety o
most curious forms is found everywhere
Thus, it will be seen, that Lehman Cav,
is very irregular, branching in many di
rections The exact size is not known
but no lover of art or the mysteries of Ma
ture could tire in three days explorations
and the specimen gatherer" could load
"prairie schooner" Passing from larg
chambers to narrow passage ways, only t
find ones self in still larger and more ex
tensive halls, each decorated in a distinct,
different style, fills the visitor with great
est wonder, admiration and delight.
Two different visits were made by You
correspondent, and he was informed on re
turning the last time that we had onl'
seen about one-half of the explored coun
try. Mr.. Lehman assures as that no pain
will be spared to open up the narrow pas
sage ways until this great wonder is thor
oughly known to man, and no one is NOR
capable of traversing its unknown depth
and soundings than its present owner-Ab
SALON. Lehman. Respectfully yours,
J. w. FREEMAN.